“Elizabeth Started All the Trouble” is a play adapted by Dr. Gina Sandi-Diaz from the book of the same name by prizewinning children’s author Doreen Rappaport.

Dr Sandi-Diaz is a professor in Fresno State’s Department of Theatre and Dance. As part of the Suffrage Centennial celebration the play, a drama for all ages, will be performed from November 17-20 on You-Tube. 

The “watch party” for the premiere will take place at 7 p.m. on November 17. After that it will be available 24/7 through midnight on November 20.   To view play click on link:     

Elizabeth Started All the Trouble

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the prime movers in the suffrage movement.along with Susan B. Anthony and a number of others, She couldn't go to college. She couldn't become a politician. She couldn't even vote. But she didn't let that stop her. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention which called on women across the nation to stand together and demand to be treated as equal to men, and that included the right to vote.

Doreen Rappaport is an award-winning children’s author who brings attention to not-yet-celebrated Americans, along with well-known figures. Her subjects include Theodore Roosevelt, Jackie Robinson, Abraham Lincoln, Dr.Martin Luther King, the Sacco-Vanzetti trial and others. She is a former teacher of music and reading,